Debbie Horsfield
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| Debbie Horsfield | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1955 (age 52–53) Eccles, Manchester, UK |
| Occupation | Writer Producer |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Spouse(s) | Martin Wenner |
Debbie Horsfield (born 1955) is an English theatre and television writer and producer.
Born in Eccles, Manchester Horsfield attended Eccles College and later studied at Newcastle University.
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[edit] Theatre career
Horsfield has worked for the Gulbenkian Studio, Newcastle, and for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her first plays were Out on the Flool, Away from it All and All You Deserve. Horsfield was commissioned to write Red Devils (which later became a trilogy) by the Liverpool Playhouse Studio in 1983, where she stayed for a year under the Thames Television Playwright Scheme. The follow-ons from Red Devils were True Dare Kiss, later to be adapted for a TV series[1], and Command or Promise. A further play was titled Touch and Go (later renamed Revelations)[2].
[edit] Television career
In the 1980s Horsfield began her television career by writing episodes of Making Out and an episode of Crown Court. In the 1990s Horsfield wrote episodes of Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll, Born to Run, and The Riff Raff Element. In the 2000s she began to produce her shows as well as write them; the hair salon based Cutting It and the mystery drama True Dare Kiss are examples of her work for BBC 1[3].
Horsfield has twice won BAFTA Best Drama Series awards, for The Riff Raff Element in 1994 and for Cutting It in 2003.
